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Agricultural performance in Africa is hindered by factors like inaccessible inputs, limited credit, unfavorable weather, pests, diseases, and poor management. The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) implemented a project funded by CGIAR to develop digital advisories for Rwanda and Ghana. They created models to forecast fall armyworm [...]

The project develops and demonstrates a climate-smart farming system, which will be created by development of new agricultural technologies and a redesigned network of the existing African agri-food value chain to increase resilience, sustainability, and circularity. The deployment of the integrated chia-mushroom -pig biogas value chain contributes to the diversification [...]

This project aims to enhance food security in Uganda, aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, focusing on "No Poverty" and "Zero Hunger." The key objectives include digitizing and commercializing smallholder farmers, improving their market access, ensuring product quality through traceability, and boosting household incomes. [...]

The Muni University-Omia Agribusiness Development Group (OADO) partnership operates in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda, an area facing challenges such as land degradation, poor soil health, and climate change. Historically a tobacco-growing region, it now relies on smallholder rainfed agriculture and is adopting high-value horticultural crops. Despite development interventions, [...]

Apollo Karuga, a recognized Kenyan Food Systems Hero by the UN’s FAO, aimed to address Kenya’s broken food system by developing an affordable, eco-friendly solution for smallholder farmers to preserve food throughout different seasons. Karuga, through his team at Grow Point International, created a solar food dehydrator designed to reduce [...]

As urbanization progresses, accessing nutritious and healthy foods has become challenging for households and communities due to the complex nature of food systems and poverty. The Urban Food Hives Initiative (UFH) in Uganda aims to build resilient, nutritious, equitable, and regenerative food systems in Kampala, with a focus on the [...]

FAO has embraced South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) as a key delivery modality to catalyze agricultural development, food security, rural development, poverty reduction and nutrition over the past two decades. The FAO-Republic of Korea (ROK) project, aims to strengthen rice research and training institutions in Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, and the [...]

Producers in the Karamoja region of Uganda, one of the poorest region in the country, face challenges related to persistent insecurity, vulnerability to climate change, illiteracy, poor physical infrastructure and access to services, as well as scarce extension services with an extremely low ratio of 1 extension officer for 1:1 [...]

NGO Development in Gardening (DIG) adapted the Farmer Field School (FFS) model to support the Batwa, an indigenous forest-dwelling community forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in the early 1990s for gorilla conservation purposes. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, the Batwa were displaced without compensation, resettled on marginal lands, barred from entering their [...]

This video features Esther, a small-scale farmer from Kitui County in rural Kenya. Esther raises poultry but faced challenges, including a high mortality rate among her chickens. Through her participation in a farmer field school, she engaged with members of her community and learned technical tips to boost her productivity. As [...]